Why, it's very simple...just do a search of the Mudcat forum for MY name, mostly before 2001, and you'll know all you need to...*grin*.

But what it is NOT is "whatever anyone wants it to mean" ....if you are going to use a word, it's got to have some meaning narrow enough to be useful, else it means almost nothing. It's just a practical matter. 'Antique' collectors have basic definitions of what is 'antique', and people who cook BBQ have rules and definitions of types of BBQ. Other kinds of music, (opera, madrigal, Dixeland...etc.) are reasonably clear....why does "folk" need to be so broad as to mean anything anyone wishes?